Strange mounting / unmounting problem

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:10:58PM +0000, Paul wrote:
> I have been listening (and ripping) a couple of CDs I was given as
> presents yesterday. They both claim to be copy protected, but both seem
> happy enough in my machine. They both played fine, but failed to eject.

If its one of the Windows booby trap ones then HAL may well have decided
it is a disk and mounted it, that migh texplain the lack of eject ?

> I did a power reset and they would still not eject, so I used a trusty
> paper clip and opened the drawers to extract the discs.

Be aware that several CD and DVD drive vendors treat copy protected discs
as a warranty invalidating event..